Loomio
Fri 18 Jul 2014 2:53AM

Free online course about Group Decision Making - anyone want to do it and form a Loomio Community study group?

AI Alanna Irving Public Seen by 232

If you'd like to join our study group, please join this subgroup. Everyone is welcome!

There's a free online class from Coursera called Making Better Group Decisions: Voting, Judgement Aggregation and Fair Division, which I have signed up for.

Since by definition many people in the Loomio community are interested in this topic, I was wondering if anyone else might want to sign up and we could host a studygroup here on Loomio, which other people who aren't able to take the course could also learn from.

Details: Starts 25 August, goes for 7 weeks, requires 1-3 hours/week of study time. The instructor is Eric Pacult of the University of Maryland.

EDIT: There's a bunch of people interested (yay!) so I'll set up a subgroup for us before the course begins and we can use it for our study group. If you're interested, go ahead and sign up for the course and make yourself known in this thread so I know to add you.

WS

Wade Schuette Fri 18 Jul 2014 3:24PM

This is not "the answer" but it's a link that might describe the kind of course we are really looking for. Or maybe not. Anyway, for consideration:
http://www.businesstrainingworks.com/facilitation-skills-training-course
If that's what people are looking for we can search more specifically for that sort of thing.

QG

Quentin Grimaud Fri 18 Jul 2014 4:07PM

I'm interested!

QG

Quentin Grimaud Fri 18 Jul 2014 4:16PM

See also this course: https://class.coursera.org/digitaldemocracy-002/lecture

AI

Alanna Irving Sat 19 Jul 2014 12:03AM

That course looks interesting @quentingrimaud but it's not currently scheduled.

@wadeschuette the course does not require any specialist knowledge and I don't think it will be highly technical. We can use the content as a jumping off point to talk about whatever we want! Also, I'm not afraid of a little math ;) I think it will be fun and interesting just to try it.

DD

David DiGiovanni Mon 21 Jul 2014 2:20AM

Just signed up!

TY

Tal Yaron Mon 21 Jul 2014 8:22AM

I would like to join the group

HM

Hubat McJuhes Wed 23 Jul 2014 8:43AM

I have subscribed to the course and would like to join the group. Cheers.

KD

Katherine Despot Thu 24 Jul 2014 12:46PM

I'm in! just registered for the course

JC

Joseph Cederwall Thu 24 Jul 2014 10:43PM

I am very scared of mathematics, but would still love to be involved. I'm currently doing this MOOC on the psychology of negotiating the commons which is a little similar: http://www.mooc-list.com/course/psychology-negotiations-leuphana
Anyone who is interested can jump on and view it as an observer

RB

Robert Beck Wed 30 Jul 2014 9:24PM

I've signed up for the course. Please add me to the group

DS

Diana Shand Thu 31 Jul 2014 9:53PM

Yes would like to join and learn how to do this.

AI

Alanna Irving Tue 5 Aug 2014 10:26PM

@cobyzephyrbabani will be joining us as well :)

NZ

Novica Zivkovic Sat 9 Aug 2014 12:11PM

I’ve signed up for the course.

MS

Michaela Spangenburg Sun 10 Aug 2014 12:02AM

I just signed up! Thanks!

FGP

Francisco George PP-ES Sun 10 Aug 2014 10:28AM

Count me in

NZ

Novica Zivkovic Sun 10 Aug 2014 5:44PM

Just received links to several Coursera useful resources find them at Coursera site if You're interested

RT

rory tb Tue 12 Aug 2014 1:44AM

This looks like fun, I'll sign up for the course, add me to the group please :)

AI

Alanna Irving Thu 14 Aug 2014 3:50AM

I have created a subgroup for us, and invited everyone who has expressed interest :)

RS

Rathy Srikanthan Sat 16 Aug 2014 4:25AM

I'd be keen to join in as well! Have signed up on coursera.

AI

Alanna Irving Sat 16 Aug 2014 11:27AM

That's great @rathy ! I'll invite you to the subgroup.

JW

Jochen Walter Fri 22 Aug 2014 7:04AM

Hi @alanna: I signed up too. I joined the subgroup by myself. ;o)

QG

Quentin Grimaud Mon 24 Oct 2016 9:31AM

The loomio subgroup as well the coursera MOOC do not seem to be accessible anymore. Here is some material written by the teacher, which serves as basis for the course: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/voting-methods/

SY

Sam Yohannes Mon 24 Oct 2016 8:54PM

Thanks Quentin! I was wondering how to get access to the course since its not in coursera.

FL

Forrist Lytehaause Tue 25 Oct 2016 2:15AM

Hi, link didn't work. Course gone. However here is a good summary w links - https://justincarcher.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/my-first-coursera-experience/

AI

Alanna Irving Tue 25 Oct 2016 10:22PM

I still think about what I learned on this course 2 years ago :) My main takeaway was there are no perfect voting protocols, and all introduce certain bias. It reaffirmed my focus on deliberation and qualitative synthesis, which can be supported by quantitative surveys as well but neither is the whole story.